Moreover, to compound the irony, his on rhetoric about the Übermensch (superman), the "blond beast", and the "will to power" would later be eagerly annexed by fascists and Nazis. Indeed, Nietzshe's relentless assault on Judeo-Christian morality did provide one of the deeper sources of inspiration for the Nazi revolution. It was, after all, Nietzsche who had branded priestly Judaism and the teachings of the Gospels as the beginning of "the slave-revolt in morals."